Calls on the WORD Talk line about TSA Workers and paying them

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00:00 I just looked at a map. don't know. Do you guys know how many ships there are out there? How many cargo ships there are? Good gracious. Go look at that. It's unbelievable. The marine traffic that we have all around this globe. my cow. So anyway, the reason I even looked at that. 00:27 was I just saw a video of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. It's picking up. It's picking up again. A lot of people are saying that this is because the regime over in Iran has lost control and they've lost power. President Trump said today um that this thing is going to be over it with very soon. That caused the 00:53 Stock markets kind of rally. I think it closed around 46, 47 this afternoon, but we'll get into that coming up in just a second. Let's go to Ralph and Gaffney. How you doing, Ralph? I'm doing excellent, Charlie. Just a little pollinated as usual from this time of year. I understand, yes. Yeah. But what I call for is how can they say they are concerned about America and will not protect us? 01:22 from enemies, foreign and domestic. When I went into military, that was my oath. Your oath as a citizen is that. And did not want to fund the homeland to keep terrorists from not being, but you know what it's going to take? Charlie. What? It's going to take for it to happen on their own doorstep before they'll come to the conclusion about what needs to be done. That always seems the way, doesn't it? 01:49 They're set on helping the illegals. When were they when blacks were being inundated in the street with their papa's asses? Yeah. Excuse me, I'm sorry. No, you're right. You're absolutely right. They weren't there when Dr. King, them were getting dogs set on them and now you want to act sanctimonious? Yeah. Yeah. It's horrendous. It really is. They do not want to protect this country one little bit. I appreciate it, Ralph. Let's go to Reid and Pickens. Reid, what's up? 02:18 pay arm i just wanted to but you know something i found out the other day that they're actually is an alternative for the tsa being federal and there are airports like san francisco uh... kansas city in bozeman news tsa guys are not federal employees really in it screening partnership program that allows airports to opt out of having 02:46 uh... federal t s a guy can have private contractors instead of the thing to do i would think maybe the president could do is to make that more appealing to the owner operators of airports yeah that's that they want to do that or if people would get on the airport maybe they could get him to do that but there is already a program for their private contractors can be t s a and so these airports here 03:16 They don't have this problem. That's a good thing. And I just looked it up real quick. It is called the screening partnership program. Unfortunately, we would have to wait until after the shutdown is over for that to be implemented because it's got to be approved by TSA. 03:35 But still, it's out there and somebody should have messed with this a long time ago. I agree 100%. I think that's a brilliant idea. Great job, Reed. Let's go to Walter and Anderson. Walter, welcome. Hello, Charlie. How are you doing today? I'm great. What's up, My question is, how is the TSA agents unionized when they are federal employees? Because the Supreme Court has ruled that federal employees can unionize. I don't agree with it. I don't think it's right. 04:05 But they can unionize. We're living in the wild, wild west of the United States of America now, then aren't we? Yeah, pretty much. Absolutely. appreciate it. Thank you so much, Walter. But again, mean, the knuckleheads in Congress not doing anything. Charlie, I recently looked at that marine traffic map. Fascinating. It's got cruise ships and other traffic, too. Yeah, it really does. It is. There's a lot of boats in the water out there, folks, here in 2026. 04:35 IWRD Talkline 800-9050-989. That's also the Common Sense Retirement Planning Text Line. Let's go to Wa ...

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